Cornfield Avenue, Antietam Battlefield

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17 44 1₁. CORNFIELD AVENUE, ANTIETAM BATTLEFIELD, SHARPSBURG, MD. Out of 120,000 men actually engaged, 70,000 Federals under McClellan and 50,000 Confederates under Lee, 22,000 were either killed or wounded during the battle of Antietam, September 17, 1862, the bloodiest one-day struggle of the Civil War. The heaviest fighting took place in a twelve-acre cornfield, thru which the above avenue now passes. The growing corn was literally cut down by the sustained musket and cannon fire before Stonewall Jackson could be forced across the field by the superior numbers under Hooker, Mansfield, Sumner and Franklin.

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